Shingle



J E. HOOKER SHINGLE July 26, 1927. 1,637,306

Filed March 5, 1927 INVENTOR L7: E 010 o Kern WITNESSES 72 W ATTORNEYS Patented July26, 1921. 1

UNITED STATES.

JAMIE HOOKER, OF CORAL GABLES, ILOBDA.

SHINGLE.

Application fled larch 5, 1987. Serial 110. 178,075.

This invention relates to shin les.

An object of the invention is t e provision of a shingle which may be cut from a roll of roofin paper in such a manner as to eliminate a l waste, the shingle being of the lockdown type, with the locking so arranged that when the shingles are applied to a roof only one nail will be required to secure the shingle in position, thus insuring saidshinl0 gle against curling, warping or becoming loosened by exposure to weather, wind and other-stresses.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an economical roof covering adapted, when applied to a roof, to include a relatively large portion covered or overlapped by adjacent shinglesbut which will have relatively little weight per square foot of roof so that a given roof area of sheathing may be covered with comparatively few shingles.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a shingle having a pluralit of slits, one bein located at each of the t ree 2 corners, the ree corner indicating always the top of the shingle to facilitate the application of the shingles to a roof, one of the corners adjacent the flap being adapted tobe nailed or secured in any crude manner to no the roof whereby a plurality of the. ends of the shingles will be secured in position with the nailed portion being covered by a succeeding shingle.

This invention will be best understood as from a consideration of the following detailed description, in view of the accompanying drawings forming a part of the specification; nevertheless, it is to be understood that the invention is-not confined to the disclosure, being susceptible of such changes and modifications which shalldefine no material departure from the salient features of the invention is expressed in the appended claims.

"In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a port-ion of a root covered with shingles constructed in accordance with the principles of my invention a Figure 2 is a .transverse section taken along the line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a view in perspectlve of one form of the shingle,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view 1n perspective of the shingle showing the securing means for thesame,

Figure '5 is a view in modified'form of shingle,

Figure 6 is a view in perspective of a further modified form, and

Figures 7 and 8 are views in perspective perspective of a .of still further modifications of the shingle shown in Figure 3.

Referring to the drawings 10 designates a roof to which a shin le 11 shown in Figure '65 3 is applied. This siingle is either square or rectangular in shape and is provided with slits 12, 13 and l t at three corners to provide, respectively, the interlocking flaps-15, 16 and 17. The corner 18 is free of aslit and forms the' upper end of the shingle which is always covered by succeeding and superimposed shingles. Furthermore, the end 18 indicates at all times the disposition of the shingle when applied to a roof and, therefore, facilitates the ready positioning.-

Referring more particularly to Figure 1 it will be seen that the shingles are so ap plied that they simulate a so-called diamondshape in that the free end isdisposed in substantial vertical alignment with the end or flap 16 with the corner 18 alwayspointing towards the ridge pole of the roof. The shingles 11 are applied along the lower edge of the roof and cut ofi alon the line indicated at 19 or instead of eing cut ofi the lower ends of the shingles are bent under and secured if desired. A second row of shingles is then applied to the roof with their lower edges overlapping the upper edges of a pair of adjacent shin les of the first row, as shown at 20. The aps 15, 16

and 17 aid in positioning the shingles in their proper'place without the aid of a chalk' line since the flaps 15 and 17 of one shingle overlap withthe similarly-formed and adjacent flaps'of an adjacent shingle; I

As shown in Figure 2 a portion 21 of each shingle which is adjacent the flap 17 is nailed to the roof either by the usual enlarged headed nails or by staples 22. This staple or nail penetrates at least three shingles and in co-operation with the interlocking flaps form the sole means for securing the shingles in associated relation and for se *uring the shingles to the roof.

lteferring more particularly to Fig. 5 a shingle 23 15 shown having slits 24, 25 and 26 formed at right angles to the respective edges and with a lateral straight slit 2! in communication with the slits 24 to 26, inclusive, and. being inclined towards an opposite edge which forms a right angle with the edge through which the main slithas been made.

In the shingle 28 shown in Fig. 7 the slits 29 which cut throu h the three edges of the shingle have curve extensions 30 directed towards another edge of said shingle. In Figure 6 a shingle 31 is disclosed having slits 32 located at right angles to the edge through which the cut has been made and right angularly disposed cuts 33 are provided at the extreme inner ends of the cuts 32 and roviding flaps 34.

The s ingle 35 shown in Fig. 8 has cuts 36 formed at right angles to the edge through which the slit is formed and is provided at the extreme inner ends with circular passages 37. The cuts 36 form interlocking flaps 38 at three corners of the shingle. The remaining corner 39 forms the upper end of the shin lo and is adapted to form an indicator %or the proper disposition ofthe shingles when being applied to the roof.

The shingles shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 provide an additional locking means for the various flaps and therefore a more secure roof. All of the shingles, however, are secured by means ofstaples or nails as in dicated.

I claim:

1. A shingle comprising a basically square sheet of roofing material havin cuts at three corners to provide interloc ing flaps for adjacent shingles when applied to the roof, each cut extending inwardly from one side edge towards an opposite edge.

2. A shingle formed of a square sheet of roofing material being cut at three corners to provide a plurality of interlockingflaps, the remaining corner which is free of a cut providing an indicator for determinin the at three corners to form an interlocking flap at said corners, said shingles being provided with an additional cut at the inner end 'of the first-mentioned cuts with the second-mentioned cut extending towards an edge which forms a right angle through which the firstmentioned cut is made.

4. A device of the character described comprising a plurality of shingles, each shingle being square shaped and formed of roofing material, each shingle having a cut at three corners to form fla s interlocked with flaps of associated shin es, the end of the shingle which is free 0% the cut projectin outwardly from the group of shingles and covered y a shingle having overlapping engagement with the adjacent edges of associate shingles, and means for securing one corner of a shin Is to the roof, each cut extending inwardy from one side edge towards an opposite edge.

JAMES E. HOOKER. 

